Slam SLAM
by johnrholmes
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: basketball, Grant Hill, Jam, launch, Pistons, Posterize, Slam Dunk
Grant Hill First Step
by johnrholmes
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: basketball, first step, Grant Hill, Lakers, Pistons, sneakers
Killer First Step
by johnrholmes
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: basketball, first step, launch, sneakers, sports
Joel Embiid – the Process
by johnrholmes
Concept art for an animated short featuring Joel Embiid for Bleacher Report. Digital. Final art used in the animated short. Tracking Embiid’s early injury troubles.
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: basketball, Dunk, Joel Embiid, nba, rebound, Sixers
Joel Embiid
by johnrholmes
Concept art for a Joel Embiid animated short for Bleacher Report.
Categories: Illustrations • Tags: basketball, defense, Joel Embiid, rebound, Sixers, Trust the Process
Mermaid
by johnrholmes
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: fantasy, mermaid, mermay, ocean, sea
A Simple Question – Alley
by johnrholmes
This is concept art from the animated short, A SIMPLE QUESTION. A spoken-word poem visualization about Black Lives Matter. It’s actually the end of a lengthy tracking shot through a ravine created by a slave’s shackle. A black veteran is on his way home when a police car spots him.
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: Alley, Black Lives Matter, Police, race, urban, Veteran
A Simple Question Collage
by johnrholmes
This is a matte painting used in an animated short, A SIMPLE QUESTION, that I directed. It’s a visualization of a spoken word poem by Kinetic Affect, ruminating on the issues of the Black Lives Matter movement. It aims to promote discussion about what divides our country.
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: Angela Davis, Black Lives Matter, civil disobedience, Colin Kaepernick, James Baldwin, John Carlos, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, protest, race, Rosa Parks, Tommie Smith
Best of Inktober 2017
by johnrholmes
These are my favorite Inktober pieces that I did for 2017. You can see the rest of them on my Instagram page. Inktober theme: UNDERWATER Inktober theme: SHATTERED Inktober theme: FIERCE Inktober theme: MYSTERIOUS Inktober theme: FILTHY Inktober theme: CLOUD Inktober theme: FALL Inktober theme: UNITED
Categories: Illustrations, Uncategorized • Tags: Adam and Eve, Baseball, Batman, cloud, Dancing, dog, Eden, fall, fierce, filthy, Godzilla, inktober, mysterious, pet shelter, shattered, underwater, united, Vogue
